Active clinical trials for "Acute Coronary Syndrome"

This study was conducted to test whether a focused education and counseling intervention delivered by a nurse will decrease time of delay in seeking treatment for the signs and symptoms of acute coronary syndrome (i.e., heart attack) in patients already identified as having ischemic heart disease.

The aim of this study is to define the best prognostic strategy for patients presenting suspected acute CORONARY syndrome, between MSCT and stress echocardiography.

The purpose of this study is to assess platelet aggregability by a "point of care" device (Multiplate®) to decrease the release time for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG ) in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in use of dual antiplatelet therapy.

This study will try to determine if the measure of the platelet reactivity of the patients receiving from the ticagrelor continuation in an acute coronary syndrome handled by coronary angioplasty allows to predict the hemorrhagic risk.

The objective of this study is to compare reduced-dose prasugrel and standard dose clopidogrel in patients older than 74 years with ACS, including non-ST-elevation (NSTEACS) and ST-elevation (STEMI) patients, undergoing early PCI. The primary endpoint of the trial will be the one-year composite of (all-cause)death, myocardial infarction, stroke and re-hospitalization due to cardiovascular reasons or bleeding.

In patients with chest pain the diagnosis of a heart attack (myocardial infarction) is made where there is evidence of heart muscle damage using a blood test to measure the heart muscle protein troponin. A new a more sensitive troponin test may help us to identify patients with myocardial infarction more easily. The investigators propose to evaluate whether use of a novel high-sensitivity troponin test to lower the threshold for diagnosis of myocardial infarction is appropriate. If increased sensitivity does not reduce specificity for the diagnosis, then this new test will improve patient outcome through better targeting of therapies for coronary heart disease. However, if increased sensitivity leads to poor specificity, then patients may be misdiagnosed and given inappropriate cardiac medications with potentially detrimental outcomes. In ten secondary and tertiary care hospitals across Scotland, the investigators will undertake a stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial of the implementation of a novel high-sensitivity troponin test. The primary end-point will be the one-year rate of cardiovascular death or recurrent myocardial infarction. This will establish whether the introduction of this high-sensitivity troponin test into routine clinical practice is beneficial to patient management and outcomes. A subset of patients will be asked to give consent for inclusion into a sub-study that will permit storage of blood samples and will require the completion of a survey during the index admission and after 6 and 12 months of follow up.

This is a randomized, single blind, controlled study of intracoronary cocktail injection before fractional flow reserve (FFR) measurement when guiding percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS).

This study will investigate the impact of motivational interviewing in achieving low-density lipoprotein cholesterol therapeutic targets in patients with acute coronary syndromes.

To evaluate the glycemic variations during acute coronary syndrome in non-diabetic patients (euglycemic, or with impaired fasting glucose, or with impaired glucose tolerance)

A feasibility study of prehospital echocardiographic examination and point-of-care troponin analysis, conducted by paramedics, in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome. Echocardiographic images are sent together with information of TnT values and ECG signs to there cardiologist on call, deciding for immediate Cath lab (PCI) evaluation or local hospital evaluation.